Show Sport light dight by Gran grantland dand rice the danger zone pay for college football players debated reasonable bounds and the commercial side LOS ANGELES in the active presence ot of some famous football coaches and athletic directors from all over the map I 1 have been trying to got get some group to answer one or I 1 two wo questions has football moved nto into the danger zone of and pay tor for athletes has the commercial side grown too important most of them tell you their universities versi ties give a certain number of athletic scholarships and try to provide jobs but nothing more yet it is a well known fact that an any y number of universities or their athletic associations have from to to help roundup corral and capture star high school talent from coast to coast the pursuit of the elusive ball carrier the crack forward passer or the big linemen emerging from school play is the keenest ive ever seen there Is another school of thought that believes the football player get nearly enough they tell you he furnishes the battered body for the billion dollar industry ive found no coach who believes in paying any football player any form of salary yet in one way or another I 1 know many are paid it is entirely too complicated for my limited brain maybe there any real danger zone but football is too great a game it affects directly too many american kids including the high schools to move along unguarded the count goes into the millions one answer may be the different conferences As it is now the ivy league has gone into a covey of its own it rarely leaves the told fold try to s slip lip some outsider into an ivy league contest the big ten has done about the same outside of playing notre noire dame and members of the big six As one of the ivy league coaches told me we have harvard yale princeton cornell pennsylvania dartmouth columbia brown army and navy syracuse and colgate are 0 K who else do we need we cant play everybody the pacific conference and the southwest are hanging together they play most of their games among themselves in spite of all this I 1 have found a strong feeling of distrust when it comes to the matter of and taking care of star players in the last few weeks ive covered several thousands of square miles through hot football territory today almost all territory is football hot ive heard over 40 stories of high school stars offered board hodg lodging ing scholarships and a fairly substantial wage I 1 know part of this is bunk I 1 also know part of it is true almost every high school kid likes to boast of the offers he has had most of them are baloney but not all of them A kid likes to brag I 1 asked one veteran athletic director just how much money he figured colleges were putting out or giving away for football talent ane one way or another there are only about colleges or universities he said which can afford to meet the competition their funds fund s range from a year to a year my guess would be around this so much when you figure people look at football each fall tall that football is easily a billion dollar game for all concerned colleges hotels railroads planes tickets and so on the main fault goes back to the C colleges arid aad the universities the directing people are the ones who have turned football into a billion dollar industry they are the ones who have stood back of all the bowls and stadia they are the responsible people it is something bordering on a crime to start blaming alamin agthe the coaches ill give you one answer that will help some a prominent athletic director said pass a rule that no team can play over two men who live over miles away from the university they play for dont think we get tooled fooled when we see teams with eight or ten players on the squad who come from to 1500 miles away and there are plenty plent Y of these I 1 still think the main answer has to be on the scholastic or scholarship side this Is ia where the final segregating will take place who run our colleges and universities presidents and boards ot of trus trustees tees or the football coaches and athletic directors most of the schedules today are money schedules why because too many universities versi ties have built up expensive plants that must be for who pays for all this the football players player sl the football players and aid the coaches teams are given schedules they hiie have no chance to handle on even terms i |